HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Film Genres

4 credits (Fall)

Cross-listed as: ART 295-01 or GWS 295-04. This course will examine the theory, criticism, and history of film genres, both domestic and transnational. We will take a comparative intersectional approach, analyzing the stylistic and narrative conventions of specific genres, and their relationship to historic and diachronic imaginaries of national identity, sociopolitical strife, cultural anxiety, and collective memory. We will discuss various film genres, both canonical and revisited. The objective of this course is to explore the question of genre through a range of theoretical rubrics and in so doing to address the social implications and the aesthetic properties of cinema. This course requires weekly screenings along with the assigned class reading.

Prerequisite: None.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Nikolopoulou